All the great prison breaks of history and popular culture involved some degree of cunning and invention. But peanut butter?
CNN this week reported on what could be one of the strangest prison breaks on record, when 12 inmates of an Alabama prison used the nutty spread to star in the latest season of Prison Break.
Now, you might be thinking that they somehow squeezed through the cell bars covered in the slippery spread. But no, the story is even stranger than that.
'Hope they manage to figure out a peanut butter proof way of numbering doors'
A comedy of errors, a new...

Lupita Nyong'o has raked in tens of thousands of likes and retweets on Twitter after posting a video of her running and dancing around San Diego Comic-Con dressed as a somewhat distorted Power Ranger.
As an actress in both the upcoming Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Marvel's Black Panther, Nyong'o has massive geek pull, and likely wanted to experience the convention without attracting a crowd.
Did you see me at Comic Con?! #SDCC2017pic.twitter.com/9Vnx4ss96d
— Lupita Nyong'o (@Lupita_Nyongo) July 26, 2017
But Nyong'o isn't alone in her wish for privacy. So here's a list of other celebs who disguised themselves so they, too, could geek out on the...

Shelley Zhang's friend thought he was reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when he was told that nowhere in the books does Dudley Dursley commit suicide because Peter Pettigrew had him under the Imperius curse.
Naturally, Zhang had to take her friend's confusion to Twitter.
Friend is reading Harry Potter for the first time. He suddenly realizes he's read a fanfiction Order of the Phoenix instead of the real one. pic.twitter.com/tKNgT6usi6
— Shelley Zhang (@shelzhang) July 10, 2017
It seems as if the friend was "gifted" a collection of the books (he almost certainly pirated them), but from Order of the Phoenix onward, JK Rowling's...

We know that politicians often mock and chastise one another in Parliament through points of order and the like, but what about WiFi hotspots?
In a rather tech-savvy jibe at President Jacob Zuma and the ANC, it seems that parliamentarians have found a new way to mock the president and the ruling party.
According to a tweet posted by DA member of Parliament and shadow minister of energy Gordon Mackay, these were some of the "wifi networks at Parliament today".
Some of the wifi networks at Parliament today 😂: pic.twitter.com/ebmLUjluHm
— Gordon Mackay MP (@GordonMack_) June 1, 2017
The tweet was published on...

We know the pressure you're under today. While mashing away at your keyboard trying to get those reports and submissions prepared, you're also trying to find that perfect Star Wars GIF to use on Twitter or Facebook for #MayTheFourth.
But no need to worry. We've got you covered.
Trawling the length and breadth of GIF repository Giphy, we've listed some of the most iconic moments in the Star Wars saga captured in pure rolling-image format magic. These's are some of the classic GIFs you should probably think about using today.
It's a trap
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Sensual Yoda
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Angrykin Skywalker
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Toodles, Lando
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Deal with it,...

Samsung just couldn't resist taking a swipe at Apple's Siri using its own smart voice assistant, could it?
Bixby, which launched this weekend in South Korea on the Samsung Galaxy S8, hides a rather innocuous diss within a command. Asking Bixby to "please rap" or "beatbox", the voice assistant drops rhymes that would put Pitbull out of work.
But more interesting still is the message hidden within one particular rap.
Users on the Samsung subreddit noticed that when the first letters of a rap's lines are read vertically, it spells out the sentence "I am better than Siri".
That's rude, Samsung. Also, dope...

You might've used the word sheeple to describe a certain population of buyers who regularly indulge in the likes of the iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. You might've been ridiculed for doing just that too.
But thankfully, Merriam-Webster now gives you license to call Apple fanboys "sheeple".
Wake up!
'Sheeple' is in the dictionary now. https://t.co/pbXVADEoBm
— Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) April 27, 2017
The near two-century-old company added the term to its online dictionary this weekend, defined as "people who are docile, compliant, or easily influenced" or "likened to sheep". But it's the example the company gives is what's really setting tongues a-wagging.
Quoting CNN journalist...

The day that celebrates fake news has come and gone. It's now 3 April, and there's no need to cower beneath your bed waiting for April Fool's Day to end.
We resisted posting our own April Fool's story because, well, it's not exactly a responsible thing to do in the current news climate. But that doesn't mean others shirked their responsibility.
We take a look at some of the April Fool's Day pranks and jokes that popped, tanked and completely caught us off guard.
What popped: Pornhub shares your naughty clips to Facebook
Oh Pornhub.
Never afraid of ruffling a few feathers, the adult...

For some people, flirting comes naturally. But for the rest of us sorry sods, flirting is like a foreign language. Personally, someone could be hitting on me for three hours straight and I wouldn't be any the wiser.
Four Innovation Design Engineering students from the Royal College of Art in London have designed a wearable to help out people like me. Or rather, they designed it to rejuvenate face to face conversation.
"Unsatisfied that the world was moving towards a future immersed in virtual reality, and believing that this may lead to difficulties in communicating in real life," a press release reads, "[the...

From YouTube channel Super Deluxe comes your new favourite emo song for when you're feeling that presidential teen angst.
Picking up on the number of complaints Trump has tweeted post-election despite winning, the team "noticed that @realdonaldtrump's tweets are basically the lyrics to an early 2000s emo song."
Super Deluxe posts everything from makeup tutorials to compilations of politicians avoiding questions, but this time they've likened Trump's tweets to the angry teenager who stomps into their room, slams their door and flips their fringe after a long day of no one understanding them.
Donald Trump as an angst-filled teenager is the hilarious vision of Super Deluxe YouTube channel
The channel...

Being a tech journalist is a dream job for me but, as with any job, it does have a few drawbacks.
One of those is that you'll be bombarded constantly with buzzwords that mean nothing and add even less to the subject. In no particular order, here are a few words we wish would just go away.
Creative - You hear this a lot when people describe what they do. This is right up there with "social media rockstar" and "design guru" as one of the most generic job titles around. Get a proper title.
Lean - Olympic swimmers are lean. Assigning three jobs...

Do you remember wearing tartan ties, knee-high socks, your locker combination, the faint whiff of baked pies at lunch time, the screams of kids playing football on the field, or the clip-clops of teachers' heels as they enter class? If you do, then you'll likely remember your days as a high school student.
You do remember it, right? If not, Twitter's latest trend will surely help you out.
For some, it would've been a good while since you last set foot in a classroom as a student, but that doesn't stop Twitter from remembering the good ol' days.
The hashtag #HighSchoolTaughtMe began...

If Pokemon Go hasn't yet ruined your childhood memories of the boy wonder Ash Ketchum and his troop of merry monsters, this surely will.
Thanks to a few crafty comedians, a new Pokemon Go parody will be debuting on the internet soon, but it's absolutely, completely and utterly NSFW. If playing Pokemon Go at work hasn't got you suspended yet, this almost definitely will.
Created by Brazzers, the video dubbed Pornstar Go: A XXX Parody, debuted on Monday and has been throwing a few meowths among the pidgeys, so to speak. The protagonist of the video (according to the NSFW trailer)...

The conclusion to the #Brexit referendum and the United Kingdom's move to leave the European Union, has sent shockwaves through world economies, politics and of course, the internet.
The pound sterling has since taken a tumble against the dollar, current UK prime minister David Cameron has announced his resignation in October, and #Brexit has been a long-standing trending topic on Twitter for the past two days now.
But on some of the lesser-visited social sharing sites, users are reacting to the news the only way they really know how: images laced with sardonic humour.
Related: #Brexit: 29 tweets that tell the story...

The internet really wants to call a US$300-million boat Boaty McBoatface.
If you read that line without laughing, you did a whole lot better than me. Nevertheless, it's all true.
British-based Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) recently opened up an online poll to help the organisation choose a new name for its massively expensive polar expedition vessel. Of course, this being the internet, the winner of the poll with an enormous 120 000 votes was Boaty McBoatface.
Hell, we like the name, but NERC doesn't quite believe that it encapsulates the mission's values.
"You won’t be surprised to know that we want something...